Arba'in — Page 165
Number Four 165 Need for a Spiritual Contest for Islam Dear readers! Impartially and faithfully reflect upon what a state of decline that Islam is in these days. It is akin to the terribly frightening situation of a child caught in the jaws of a wolf. This is the very plight of Islam these days, and there are two calamities it is facing: 1. The first is internal—Disunity and mutual discord have exceeded the limits. Each sect is gnashing its teeth at the other. 2. The second is external—False evidence is being employed to attack Islam with such vehemence that no precedent of such attacks can be found anywhere in the world ever since the day Adam was created, or—shall we say—since the foundation of prophet- hood was established. Islam was once the religion that the response among its people to a single per- son becoming an apostate would be apocalyptic. It was thought impossible for anyone to leave Islam